Angka

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Angka (also Angkar ) as a short form of Angka padevat ( German: revolutionary organization ) was an all-encompassing name at the time of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia , behind which the Communist Party of Kampuchea and thus the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot hid themselves.

Angka ("the Organization") was used as the front organization for the Communist Party of Cambodia, which initially operated in complete secrecy. This pretense of an anonymous organization was part of the overall secrecy used by the communists in Cambodia. Only in a speech on September 27, 1977, two and a half years after taking power and proclaiming the Democratic Kampuchea , did Pol Pot admit that the Communist Party was hiding behind Angka.

During the genocide in Cambodia , Angka assumed the meaning of an omnipresent mysterious power that always compels extreme attention and caution - otherwise you will become the enemy of Angka.

literature

  • Daniel Bultmann: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge: The creation of the perfect socialist . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78692-0 .
  • Ben Kiernan : The Pol Pot Regime. Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. (3rd edition). Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-14434-5 .
  • Henri Locard: Pol Pot's Little Red Book: The Sayings of Angkar. Silkworm books, Chiang Mai 2004, ISBN 974-9575-56-3 .
  • Jean-Louis Margolin: Communist Regimes in Asia: Between Re-education and Mass Murder ; in: Stephane Courtois among others: The black book of communism . Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-04053-5 .
  • Pin Yathay: Stay alive, my son! Silkworm books, Chiang Mai 1987, ISBN 974-7551-26-8 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Speech by Comrade Pol Pot, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, on September 27 [1977] in Phnom Penh. In: Communism and Class Struggle . No. 11/1977, pp. 486-491; Kampuchea Communist Party: A Struggle Path of 17 Years. In: Peking Rundschau . No. 41 of October 11, 1977, p. 45.
  2. ^ David P. Chandler : Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot . (Revised Edition). Westview, 1999 Boulder (CO). Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai (Thailand) 2000, ISBN 974-7551-18-7 , p. 135.